Wednesday, May 31, 2006

 

What I'm reading today

The Perfect Man
Good Sci-Fi short story at Salon (Membership or Day Pass [watching an ad] required)

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

 

Chinese Bible Exhibit

Last night I attended an Exhibition on the Church in China. It was very interesting, and I had no idea that Christianity had as much freedom over there as was portrayed in the Exhibit. I guess I just don't know that much about modern China. I picked up a lot of materials and plan to read them in order to learn more. Check out the exhibit if you can in Atlanta before Wednesday or in NYC June 5-12th.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

 

What I am reading today

http://off-the-map.org/atheist/2006/05/09/hope-and-transformation/
Ongoing conversations between Christians and atheists, inspired by an atheist who sold (on ebay) his services of visiting churches and offering observations on the experience.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

 

Two cool alternative news sources in Atlanta

Atlanta Progressive News
http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news.html
which has a good article about the history and current resurrection of
The Great Speckled Bird
http://bird.thinkspeak.net/
which was the Atlanta underground newspaper in the 60s and 70s when the counterculture was still hanging around midtown.

My mom said the other day that she remembers going to clubs in midtown in the late 60s when they lived in North Georgia and seeing hippies, which were still a rare sight in Georgia at that time. She's pretty radical now, but very sheltered then, so I wonder what it was like to be faced with that alternative to the life she was living, just out of UGA, married, student teaching, with a husband soon to enlist in Air Force pilot training to avoid the worst of the draft.
I'll have to ask her more about that later.

No RSS feeds on either one yet, but hopefully soon.

Anna

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